Wild Thing - The Troggs (electric tutorial)

Wild Thing, this is by the Troggs originally, this has been covered by everyone from rock cover bands to Jimi Hendrix to absolutely everyone, and it's a classic riff with open chords, 3 basic open chords. A major. D major. And E major. All we need to do, and you can play A major like this, A major like this, or even a big favourite of mine, it's just a one finger but A major chord where we kind of have to kink this first finger like this. But if you have painful tips of your fingers from playing guitar and doing all your shredding and stuff, this one finger chord is fantastic, and that's what gets us up to. Doing loads of Queen riffs and loads of. Loads of Keith Richards type stuff, that one finger a chord is a real gateway. So A like this or A like this, and he's totally fine, one is not better than the other, whichever one works for you is the best one to go for at this point. Either way, it's A, A, 2 strums on the beat, DD. E. DD, which is why I really like this way of playing an A, especially with beginners, cos we get to use it as an anchor finger while we're learning the dexterity of these basic open chords and so many other songs. Use these three chords, I mean it's an endless list that I've made, probably hundreds of videos on over the years, to be honest, on YouTube and the like, but, wild thing, really recognisable, really distinctive, and it needs to specifically go. A, a. DD D E D D, and we just repeat that. Wow. You make my heart sing. You make everything. the Wow, fame. Then Wild thing I think I love you, here, I genuinely recommend, if you haven't done already, going for this one finger achord. So the riff loops and loops and loops and that's most of the song, but open. Uh, particularly the open to middle strings. To a flat first finger at the 2nd fret covering both of those middle two strings, the G and the D. Wild thing I think I love you. Open first finger, open first finger, but I wanna know for sure. 1234. Give it a go for me now, bam bam bam bam. That's what we wanna do, right? Ba ba ba ba. So come on and hold me tight. Then we need to get ready to play this riff again, first finger there, may as well use it. 34. And that is basically how this whole song goes, even over the, what's the original got, like a flute solo, do do do do do, all of that kind of thing, just keep playing the riff. If you're unsure of where you are, pause for one second. Listen to where the riff's gonna start again and just join back in, whether that's along to me now or the original recording. A couple of the original recordings are a bit out of like tune with standard tuning, so make sure you're in standard tuning, I'll do my best to find a standard tuning original recording to uh for you to play along to. There's the Jimi Hendrix version and loads of versions as well. Let's have a jam though. Join in with me from this main riff. That's where the brown sound setting once again, and we're just on about 3 or 4 out of 10 on this one, we're a little bit cleaner. Cause this is more of a sixties tune. Ready in 23, riff. Loud, thing. You make my heart sick. You make everything. yeah. Wild thing then. Wild thing, I think I love you. 0202, but I wanna know for sure. So come on and hold me tight, final time. Riff in 1234. Wow, fame. You make my heart sing. You make everything. Loud thing. Finish Woo, there you go, that's how to play Wild Thing. Add that to your practise routine, jam along to me there, jam along to uh any of the original recordings that are in standard tuning, I'll try and find one below. Add that to your practise routine and I'll see you in the next video.